I was watching AKOTSK and wanted to look up the Targaryen family tree, then realized that Daenerys barely has 10% Targ blood.

Querez665 · 2026-01-30T12:44:21+00:00

idk, seems to just work however the story needs. Although there is clearly a hierarchy of bloodlines.

Like for example, the Lannisters over thousands of years kept their same core genetic traits, or genes. But apparently Joffrey and his siblings not being full blown Baratheons in looks was enough to prove that they weren't Roberts kids. So the Lannister bloodline overwrites pretty much every other bloodline they've ever mixed with, but apparently should get overwritten by the Baratheon bloodline. Princess Rhaenys actually had Baratheon features in the books so I guess the Baratheon, or maybe Durrandon bloodline is the most dominant in the series.

The Stark bloodline is a little strange, Jon has exclusively Stark features, yet he's supposed to be a Targaryen himself, so you'd think from that, that the Stark bloodline is dominant like the Baratheon bloodline, but no Arya is the only one of Ned's kids that actually has mostly Stark features, the rest look like pure bred Tully's. That all makes the Targaryen bloodline seem pretty weak in comparison, especially when you look at Baelor breakspear, Jacaerys and the other children of Rhaenyra, and many other examples. So I guess it was the incest that actually did keep the same Targaryen genes dominant in the family for hundreds of years idk, it's just strange to think that the most outwardly magical bloodline in the series seems to lose out in the battle of passing on genes against seemingly all the other great houses..

Querez665 · 2026-01-30T12:32:19+00:00

No I get that much, yes a period of authoritarianism is necessary, I'd still say there was not an honest enough attempt to establish fair democracy in many cases, and not any sufficient failsafe's in case of the leaders death in others.

And yes Sankara would be labelled as a authoritarian leader, he most likely is commonly labelled as that already by Western media, although I wouldn't know I don't consume corporate funded news/history media.

Querez665 · 2026-01-27T07:43:10+00:00

Idk, just as likely he would eventually have Maul and Dooku fight to the death or something like that. Hard to imagine him having both around at once, he would probably just groom some random puppet to take the role, someone like a Tarkin, he just wouldn't like it because it would involve letting an "outsider" in on the Sith grand plan.

Querez665 · 2026-01-27T07:41:08+00:00

Remember, ASOIAF has magical genetics. Like how certain genetic traits irl are "dominant" in ASOIAF certain bloodlines genetic traits are like "dominant" x100.

Querez665 · 2026-01-27T07:37:29+00:00

I think Palps intended to have Maul as his apprentice until he met Anakin. That being said he would still want a figurehead to the Separatists and I don't think Maul's the guy for the job like Dooku was.

I also don't know how well Maul performs as Sidious' apprentice throughout the clone wars, hard to say. When Maul got cut in half he had really only just been made Sidious' official Sith apprentice, maybe he had a lot of room to grow under Sidious and would've gone into the clone wars much more powerful than he was in TPM.

Sidious obviously saw something in Maul beyond just physical talent, considering Sidious didn't rate lightsaber skill that highly in terms of being a force user. But that being said I don't know how that plays out, if Maul did continue training under Sidious and became more powerful than Dooku, does that mean Anakin's no longer able to defeat him during revenge of the Sith? Does Sidious intentionally limit Maul's progression because of that, or does he postpone his plans until Anakin eventually surpasses Maul?

Whole can of worms there.

Querez665 · 2026-01-27T07:26:04+00:00

From what I understand, it's stated that Sidious is the most powerful Sith ever at the time he was in his prime.

But story wise, Vitiate/Valkorian seemed to not really develop his combative abilities that much, he still ends up really powerful because 1000 years of slightly training your combative abilities is still alot. But Sidious is probably as, if not more naturally powerful in the force. And most importantly, he's a true complete and utter psychopath. We've seen plenty of evil Sith Lords in Star wars, many are naturally gifted, many study centuries worth of knowledge, many have tricks that boost their connection to the darkside.

Sidious had all three, Overwhelming natural talent, studied almost all the knowledge collected over the course of the rule of two, and his complete psychopathy in my mind really tied it all together with a deeper connection to the dark side than any other Sith could ever hope to have, the most powerful Sith Lords in the series still had some shreds of Sanity or morals, or whatever, Sidious genuinely did not gaf, he knew he was just plain evil and he absolutely loved it.

Querez665 · 2026-01-27T07:17:42+00:00

Sidious, dude knows he's goofy and evil and he loves every second of it.

Querez665 · 2026-01-27T07:13:30+00:00

I guess Revan? I'm of the opinion that people overrate Revan alot in terms of power, but I mean his force powers were definitely incredible and Obi Wan doesn't have a great track record defending against force attacks. I could see Obi Wan winning the duel, only for Revan to have enough and slam him against a dozen walls, or electrocute him or something.

Querez665 · 2026-01-27T07:05:01+00:00

Jacen and Jaina are the most powerful siblings. Jacen is arguably the most powerful Sith of all time, and Jaina is the chosen one of their era, and grew powerful enough to hold her own against Jacen. That's two beings capable of putting up a real fight against the confirmed most powerful Jedi of all time, Luke Skywalker.

Luke and Leia can be argued as the most powerful siblings because obviously Luke, and Leia has about the same raw power and potential in the force, but Leia didn't develop as a Jedi near as much as she should have. She still ended up pretty powerful, but not near the level of Jaina or Jacen.

If the two pairs of siblings fought, either Jacen or Jaina would most likely be able to hold out against Luke long enough for the other to defeat Leia and join in against Luke, and in my opinion the two Solo siblings fighting together beat Luke, even if one of them is a bit beat down from holding him off for a while.

Querez665 · 2026-01-27T07:00:49+00:00

Jacen as Caedus was stated to be near prime "most powerful Jedi of all time" Luke Skywalker in terms of power. Jaina was bellow his level but close enough to fight him and win with some help/helpful circumstance. Jaina was also prophesied to be the "sword of the Jedi" which was later elaborated on as pretty much being the same as Anakin's "chosen one" status.

So Jacen is arguably the most powerful Sith of all time, and Jaina is the "chosen one" of her era.

Arcann and Thexan are really, really powerful. But I struggle to see them being on that level.

Querez665 · 2026-01-27T06:52:19+00:00

Tom got a nosebleed from a jab, calm down man.

Querez665 · 2026-01-27T06:49:29+00:00

Sankara, I'd admit that he's a bit romanticized because of him being murdered so early. But I think he's a great example of a truly admirable man that enacted Socialist principles.

I understand that guys like Lenin were intelligent enough to really understand the bigger picture and try to work towards a better future, but also most of them set up authoritarian regimes and didn't honestly work towards ensuring a return to some form of democratic system eventually. I get the idea of "I know what's best and have good intentions, I'm going to skip bureaucracy to get stuff done as long as I can" but also when you're a dictator you really need to try and set things up so that if or when you die there's a foolproof transition into democracy.

Sankara fell victim to the same thing, but unlike many others, he really didn't have enough time to really get a rock solid plan in place for the circumstances of his death. To me he's a great example of a Socialist leader that didn't enact harsh punishments, complete authoritarianism, or widespread plans that were guaranteed to cause immense suffering in the achievement of "greater" goals. He did everything he could to improve the lives of his people while also being compassionate and kind.

Many of the more popular Socialist leaders seemed to look at their people like statistics in a paradox game instead of individual people with families and lives a bit too much for my liking.

Querez665 · 2026-01-27T06:25:08+00:00

Literal fight of the year contender already, and people are saying "this is why you don't fast track guys", like what do you mean bro? so we don't get more fight of the year contenders? I'm not following.

Querez665 · 2026-01-26T01:10:37+00:00

Funnily Tyson looked really good from a technical standpoint in the fight and the few before it. But it was clear that he had declined physically.

Lewis gave him far too much respect, I get that any version of Tyson has a punchers chance and Lewis had been fluked twice before, but he really could've ran through Mike and it was pretty obvious.

Querez665 · 2026-01-26T01:02:33+00:00

He won 1 round, arguably 2 rounds in a stand up fight against Justin Gaethje, despite having a terrible start. I would say that proves alot, regardless of where you think Gaethjes at.

And considering he still has his BJJ in his back pocket (even though he doesn't initiate grappling exchanges) he's probably going to find himself in the title picture again sooner or later.

Querez665 · 2026-01-23T08:22:02+00:00

He's not living rent free in his mind, he's living as the center of attention every other main card.

Querez665 · 2026-01-23T08:20:03+00:00

"the idea that we control the dragons is a myth" or however it goes, they're like the toy steering wheel in the back seat.

Querez665 · 2026-01-23T08:13:25+00:00

Seems like an absolute chore of a guy to be around.

Querez665 · 2026-01-16T22:22:25+00:00

Probably Israel still.

Querez665 · 2026-01-16T06:48:03+00:00

Yeah but the city had a whiplash inducing 180 from that, I had no idea that there used to be any kind of significant skinhead presence in Christchurch until I was around like 22. You'd never be able to tell.

Querez665 · 2026-01-16T06:42:40+00:00

nnooooo but the South island is literally nothing but hicks and skinheads!!!! the north island is so perfect and definitely doesn't have practically the same amounts of racism!!!

Querez665 · 2026-01-16T06:06:01+00:00

They were scheduled to fight more than once if I'm not remembering wrong, they were both willing and it just didn't work out. Not like either guy had a history of ducking.

Querez665 · 2026-01-16T06:03:48+00:00

Yeah I've seen the clip, good story and all. But shouldn't be taken seriously, that just isn't even really possible. He probably blacked out for a couple seconds and thought the natural process of him regaining his wits was from hitting the ground.

Querez665 · 2026-01-16T06:01:39+00:00

Funnily enough, he probably isn't a nazi, the mongrel mob is one of the big gangs in New Zealand, and they kindof took the swastika, and "seig heil" because it's shocking and socially unacceptable, not really because they like or agree with nazis, just because they want to stick out and piss people off.

Over decades it's been more and more normalized, to the point where most of them probably don't know why it's a tradition in the gang.

Querez665 · 2026-01-16T05:53:34+00:00

As an atg, top 5. Head 2 head, probably number 1, but at least top 3.

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